LSCHNELLE Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Please help (if possible) to narrow down the ID of this bone. It doesn't look fishy to me, unless it's a really big fish fragment. I tried to dissolve and remove the very hard matrix from around the fossil. But, it only softened the fossil more. I have put on a coating of thick cyanocrylate try and stabilize it. These are some early photos from right after I found it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 36 minutes ago, LSCHNELLE said: . The texture in this photo is giving me a turtle vibe, but more photos as it dries or gets revealed might give some folks other ideas 1 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 15 hours ago, Jared C said: The texture in this photo is giving me a turtle vibe, but more photos as it dries or gets revealed might give some folks other ideas Could it be a partial scapular process and partial acronium from a Cenomanian Protostegidae indet. or similar turtle? See pictures from German paper - PaleorXiv Papers | Protostegid marine turtle remains from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of the Kassenberg (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Western Germany) https://paleorxiv.org/c78k3/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 From the photos we have it looks comparable but I don't know enough to call it 100%. 3 minutes ago, LSCHNELLE said: Could it be a partial scapular process and partial acronium from a Cenomanian Protostegidae indet. or similar turtle? Fortunately, there is a central Texas Protostegid that I know of from the lower eagle ford (lake waco member). Protostega eaglefordensis. 1 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSCHNELLE Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 Thanks for your help! Seems possible then. Similar time period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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